Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great fluorescence in German art. It saw the formation of three extremely influential bands of artists: "Die Bruecke," creators of a monumental expressionistic style, "Die Blaue Reiter," who made bold experiments in color and form, one of whose members painted the first "abstract" picture, and finally, the "Bauhaus Painters," who found a creative center for their work in a design institute that attempted to "unite the arts under the leadership of architecture to create the building of the future...
...came after. Contemporary German art seems to be well behind literature in recovering from the war. There is almost no evidence of the originality that influenced the whole of western art in the early part of the century. What we see are derivative paintings. The influence of the American abstract expressionist school is clear in the work of Fritz Winter (this school itself of course has its roots in Kandinsky's early experiments). Willi Baumeister is a second-rate Miro. And others like Hans Uhlmann and Ernst Wilhelm Nay are bound in vision of Picasso. Were...
...with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph The Watchman; for one of the signed edition of 200, the price drops...
...some of them were, the oldtime texts emphasized morality and character. "How little of that appears in the readers of today!" Even great heroes become "bloodless, namby-pamby, without vitality, pluck or distinguished ideas." The words "love, loyalty, honesty" rarely appear because the experts regard them as too abstract. "Sin is out . . . but (and quite logically) so is virtue. The children depicted in modern readers live in an uncharted ethical miasma of being 'happy,' engaging in do-it-yourself pursuits . . . with nice fathers and mothers in the background, who display no virtues beyond being kind and indulgent...
...problem of overcrowding immediately arises. A national conference on the topic, "Approaching Equality or Opportunity in Higher Education," sponsored by the American Council on Education, has examined the situation in colleges. The conference came to three conclusions: 1) educational opportunity through the next two decades will extend in the abstract ideological sense; 2) the enormous increase of college enrollments in the 1960-75 period, however, will result in an overall reduction of educational opportunity (by 1975, 3,800,000 men and women will be reaching the age of 22 annually, compared to 2,100,000 last year); 3) the change...